ARGENTINA: Dictatorship & Corruption

The process of delving into governmental iniquity under ex-Dictator Juan
Perón came to an official end last week. At a special ceremony, Vice
President Isaac Rojas praised the National Investigating Committee
and as tactfully as possible explained the government's decision that the
probe should now stop. A bit unhappy at the decision, Vice Admiral Leonardo
McLean, the committee's zealous chief, summed up its work: the staff of
about 2,500 had arrested 1,045 suspects, sent 314 cases to the courts, spent
only $70,000 in 27 weeks of investigations. Its records will now go...